Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Non-Fiction, Education
Paperback Published on: 06/04/2006
£10.99
Synopsis
Assume nothing, question everything.
This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon.
'Prepare to be dazzled' Malcolm Gladwell
'A sensation ... you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?' Sunday Telegraph
'Has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next' Wall Street Journal
'Dazzling ... a delight' Economist
'Made me laugh out loud' Scotland on Sunday
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780141019017
- Number of pages: 336
- Weight: 247g
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
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Freakonomics
A friend recommended that i took a look at this and i was hooked after 10 pages! The basic premise is to apply economic models to everyday questions. Why d... READ MORE
A lesson in unconventional wisdom
Freakonomics is more a lesson in divergent thinking and the questioning of conventional wisdom than it is in economics. The reader is presented with a seri... READ MORE
Freakonomics
This is quite an interesting read that does get you thinking about the world in a somewhat unusual way (it really never occurred to me that drug dealers li... READ MORE
Freakonomics
Overall and excellent and entertaining book, though it can drag in places.
Readable economic takes on quirky question that doesn't interrogate its own data
Steven D. Levitt teaches economics at the University of Chicago. Stephen J. Dubner is a writer for the New York Times and The New Yorker. This book resul... READ MORE
Very insightful
I really enjoyed this book. It made me consider things in a different way and see the bigger picture of a lot of the things that happen around us every day... READ MORE
Funny, educational, and thought provoking.
I was immersed in this book, Levitt really has a unique mind. Some ideas take you back a bit, but as you read on and allow yourself to be guided by his tho... READ MORE
Subversive in the most positive sense!
I wish i'd read this book when it was first published in 2005. By the time i'd finished reading it i felt so behind the curve but also in front of it at th... READ MORE